Gathering most-likely genuine crop-circles

copyright 8/2004 Jonah Ohayv

Instead of being diverted by the never-ending discussion about and criteria for identifyng hoaxed crop circles, let us especially study and relate those crop circles whose history and details show them within reasonable doubt to be genuine!

If other researchers make similar compilations, giving their evidence and own analyses, we can build a "positive" list. With such a base, maybe we can combine broader meanings, interpretations, or at least tentative significances for those crop circles. What can we learn from their symbols, types of lay, size, placement, timing, etc.?

The problem, of course, is that each person's criteria for genuineness and threshholds of stringency will differ - yet some consensus will be possible.

Among the many formations probably falling into the category "genuine", I've gathered here 14 British examples. Although you may well disagree about the origins of some of these despite the evidence very briefly presented, I estimate that many well-informed researchers will agree that many of these cases must indeed be genuine.

My arguments for their genuineness become clearer when you have some additional basic knowledge about these crop-circles. Systematic field-reports about these examples are found in the archives of the Crop Circle Connector website (membership required). For other articles about them, I suggest trying Internet search-engines under the locations and the dates of their discovery.

(Click on blue-rimmed pictures for their enlargement.)

photos Lucy Pringle

1. Stonehenge from July 7, 1996.

"Julia set" made within a 45-minute time-window in the daytime (construction in the field would take hours), adjacent to Stonehenge with its guards and many visitors, to a fairly busy highway, and to a farmhand working the next field - but no one saw it made.

photo Bill Witherspoon and diagram from Ilyes' article

2. Oregon, USA, from Aug., 1990.

"Sri Yantra" hindu meditation symbol, in all 13 miles of precisely and deeply etched lines in a dry seabed's hard earth, in a wilderness area with no roads nearby, and discovered from an airplane. For details, see Ilyes' article at http://cropcircleconnector.com/ilyes/ilyes9.html.

4. Normanton Down from July 4, 2002.

The "Ribbon's" exact placement in relation to 3 neolithic mounds and their surrounding tractor lines, despite its huge size, could hardly be measured on-the-ground in advance or be coincidental.

photos Steve Alexander and Stuart Dike

5. Milk Hill from Aug. 14, 2001.

409 circles covering a huge span in one stormy night. Blown nodes and other classical anomalies were corroborated by BLT. Links to nine small articles from the website Swirled News about this crop circle are found at the bottom of the article: http://www.korncirkler.dk/dronning.html.

photos Ulrik Kox

6. Bishop Cannings from Aug. 6, 1999.

"Basket" with stunning details as seen from the air, of overall weaving and of spiralling rays within the outer circles.

photo Lucy Pringle

7. Chilbolton from Aug. 21, 2001.

The "Code's" evidence is based on its de-coded content. It's a precisely analagous reply to the 1974 radio code we from Earth sent to tentaqtive recipients in outer space. The crop circle contains internally consistent, previously unknown info about an alternative, non-earthly DNA structure and content, which turns out to be entirely feasible. The complex details of this finding by organic chemistry professor Corrado Malanga, are published in Italian only, but parts of its preliminary chain-of-reasoning can be gathered in the articles by others at http://www.korncirkler.dk/cccorner/chilbolton2.html.

photo Lucy Pringle

8. Scrope Wood from July 22, 2003.

The "Snowflake's" lay. The systematic 3 and 4-layered weaving at the juncture points of bars, small rings, and large rings' rims, along with backwards weaving in the most outer rim's central braid, make construction in the field at ground-level infeasible. See http://www.korncirkler.dk/cccorner/geomdetails3.html for details.

11. Ogbourne St. George from June 15, 2003.

BoLs; many balls of light flying out of the formation were witnessed, photographed, and videotaped by various visitors, including Stuart Dike and Mark Fussell from the website Crop Circle Connector.

photo Steve Alexander

12. Beckhampton from July 28, 1999.

Japanese origami figure very similar to a form meditatively visualized to appear the next morning in that area, by a Japanese group led by Masao Maki the night before. BoLs were witnessed by the group during that night. Events recounted in Bert Janssen's video "Contact".